Shirt.



PATENTED JUNE 9, 1908.

SHIRT.

J. V. WILSON.

APPLICATION FILED EEB. 19. 1906.

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UNITED sTATEs PATENT onirica.

.IOHN V. WILSON, OF TROY, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO INTERSTATE. SHIRT AND COLLAR GOM- PANY, OF TROY, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF MAINE.

SHIRT.

Patented June 9, 1908.

Application filed February 19, 1906. Serial No. 301,738.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN V. WILSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Troy, county of Rensselaer, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shirts, of which the following is a specication,

The invention relates to such improvements and consists of the novel construction and combination of parts hereinafter described and subsequently claimed.

Reference may be had to the accompanying drawings, and the reference characters marked thereon, which form a part of this specification. Similar characters refer to similar parts in the several iigures therein.

Figure l of the drawings is a plan view of the front side of a shirt embodying my invention, portions of the bosom and body being broken away and shown in section to better illustrate the construction. Fig. 2 is a horizontal cross-section of the same takenon the broken line 2 2 in Fig. 1, having the body rounded out somewhat as the same would be in use. Fig. 3 is a horizontal cross-section taken on the broken line 3 3 in Fig. 1, showing the finished bosom. Fig. 4 is a similar section of the body and various bosom-plies secured together by a run seam in the operation of`making the shirt. Fig. 5 is a similar sectional view showing the plies turned and stitched adjacent to the run seam and an intermediate portion of the inner bosom-plies stitched to the body. Figs. 3, 4 and 5 are drawn on an enlarged scale and show the various thicknesses of fabric of eX- aggerated dimensions.

In Figs. 1 and 2 which are drawn on a smaller scale no attempt has been made to show the various plies, said figures being more or less diagrammatic illustrations not intended to illustrate the details of construction.

The invention relates to stiif-bosomed shirts and the principal object of the'invention is to facilitate the construction and use of such a shirt so that the bosom will in use be free from the controlling influence of movements of the body of the wearer, and to facilitate the retention of the bosom within the vest or waistcoat of the wearer.

Referring to the drawings wherein the invention is shown in its preferred form, 1, is the shirt-body open down the front, and, 2, 2, are the respective sides of the bosom which is also open at the front. The contour of the bosom is that of a bosom of the ordinary dress-shirt. Intermediate portions of the bosom are secured along the lines, 4, to the body of the shirt, leaving on the sides and bottom the edges, 5, of the bosom disconnected and free from the body.v The part of the bosom lying between the lines, 4, is of small area as compared with the ordinary dress-shirt-bosom and of such limited area that it is adapted to lie flatly upon the bosom of the wearer when the pull of the shirtbody causes it to be drawn against the person.

As heretofore more commonly constructed, the bosoms of dress-shirts have been connected at their eXtreme outer edges to the shirt-body, so that when the bosom was drawn against the body of the wearer by the pull exerted upon the bosom-edges by the shirt-body due to the movements of the person, the sti bosom was caused to bend and buckle in places and to bulge outwardly through' the vest-front in an unsightly and disagreeable manner. The construction and method of manufacture whereby this result is obtained constitute features of my invention.

In making a shirt in accordance with my improved method, the body, 1, of the shirtfront is placed between a plurality of bosomplies 6 6 and 7 7 with all of their front edges coinciding, in which position they are secured together by a run seam, 8, along their front edges as shown in Fig. 1. The subjacent bosom-plies, 7, are then turned over upon the incumbent bosom-plies, 6, and all the plies' are secured together by a line of stitching, 9, adjacent to said run seam., S,

and to the inturned edges of the body and bosom-plies secured by said run seam. The outer bosom-plies, 7, are then bent back as shown in Fig. 5 and an intermediate portion of the inner bosom-plies, 6, is secured to the body of the shirt by a line of stitching, 10, as shown in Fig. 5. The outer bosom-plies, 7, are then laid over upon the inner bosomplies, 6, and the outer edges of all of said bosom-plies, after having been inturned, are

secured together by a line of stitching, 11, to facilitate the insertion of which the body, 1,

is bent back out of the way as shown in Fig.

3, so as to leave the outer edge of the bosom disconnected and free from the body of the shirt.

I have shown the bosom made throughout of four plies, the middle portion of the bosom being further stiffened by a 'fifth ply comprising such parts of the shirt body as lie between the lines 4-4 which represent the location of the line of stitching, l0.

The bifurcation, l2, between the outer edges of the bosom and the body of the shirt is adapted t receive the Suspenders and upper portion of the trousers of the wearer, permitting the outer edges of the bosom to lie outside of the same, so that only the soft body-portion of the shirt is pressed against the body of the wearer by the Suspenders and trousers.

'' What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is An open-front shirt having a soft body, and a stiff bosom formed of a plurality of plies of fabric, all of the bosom-plies and the body having their edges adjacent to the front opening inturned and secured together by a run seam and a line of stitching adjacent thereto, certain of the bosom-plies having intermediate portions secured by stitching to the body, and all of the bosom-plies having their outer edgesinturned and-stitched together and free from the body.

In testimony whereof, I'have hereunto set Y my hand this 8th day of February, 1906.

JOHN V. WILSON.

Witnesses:

FRANK C. CURTIS, J. L. FULLER, JosEPH O. EATON. 

